Acupuncture Plus in Honor Oak Park
Combining acupuncture with personalised naturopathic support to help you understand what your body needs.
Acupuncture Plus in Honor Oak Park
Combining acupuncture with personalised naturopathic support to help you understand what your body needs.
Feeling like your body isn’t coping the way it used to?
Maybe you’re feeling exhausted, stressed, struggling with hormonal changes, or noticing symptoms that keep coming back.
Acupuncture Plus combines hands-on treatment with a deeper look at your health, helping us understand what may be contributing and what support your body needs.
Get support with
Ongoing stress
Generalised anxiety
Fatigue and low energy
Hormonal symptoms and cycle changes
Digestive symptoms
Nervous system dysregulation
Sleep affected by stress
Feeling overwhelmed, tense or emotionally stuck
What does adding naturopathy mean?
Acupuncture gives us time to work directly with your body during the session. Adding naturopathy gives us the opportunity to look more deeply at what may be influencing how you feel day to day.
Depending on your symptoms, this may include:
Reviewing your current diet and daily routines
Understanding your energy, sleep, digestion, hormones and stress patterns
Looking at existing blood tests or suggesting markers to discuss with your GP
Arranging private testing if this would provide useful information
Identifying possible nutrient gaps or areas needing support
Personalised supplement recommendations where appropriate
Practical nutrition and lifestyle changes that fit around your real life
The aim isn’t to give you a long list of things to change. It’s to identify the areas where small, targeted changes may make the biggest difference.
Adding naturopathy gives us more time to ask why.
One
Your first session includes a full consultation, where we’ll gently explore what’s contributing to your stress or anxiety, and how it’s affecting your body and daily life. You’ll also receive an acupuncture treatment tailored to support nervous system regulation and emotional balance.
Two
Following the session, I’ll send you a personalised naturopathic plan, which may include nutrition and lifestyle guidance, nervous system tools, and supplement recommendations (if appropriate).
Three
In follow-up sessions, we’ll take time to check in, adapt your plan as needed, and explore supportive techniques like breathwork or nervous system tools, based on what’s most helpful for you at the time. Some clients alternate between full naturopathic sessions and shorter acupuncture-only visits. If that feels right for you, I’ll guide you through how it works - it’s flexible and designed to meet your needs without unnecessary cost or complexity.
This is a collaborative space, we’ll move at your pace, and focus on what feels most relevant and supportive for you.
Body & Mind: A Whole-Person Approach
Your symptoms rarely exist in isolation
Stress, sleep, hormones, digestion, nutrition and pain all influence each other.
You might notice your digestion changes when life feels stressful, your energy drops when sleep suffers, or pain feels worse when your body has been under pressure for too long.
Acupuncture Plus looks at the bigger picture, so we can understand what areas need support.
This is why I combine acupuncture and naturopathy.
Before retraining, I experienced what happens when your body spends too long pushing through. Symptoms are not always solved by doing more or trying harder.
I wanted to create the kind of support that helps people understand their body and make realistic changes alongside treatment.
When we address nutrition, breathwork, daily patterns and nervous system support, we create a foundation that’s not only effective but also sustainable. Acupuncture alone can offer deep relief, but in my experience, when we leave the other pillars unaddressed, that relief may be temporary. I want to give you tools that help you feel better now and support your long-term wellbeing.
How it works
This service is designed to support your nervous system - not just to calm it temporarily, but to help it regulate more consistently over time.
First...
Understanding you
We begin by understanding how stress or anxiety is showing up in your body, energy, and daily life. You’ll complete a comprehensive health questionnaire before your first session, based on systems biology and whole-person care, helping us identify key areas of imbalance. When appropriate, I may suggest blood tests, often ones your GP will be happy to arrange - to check nutritional status, blood sugar regulation, or other relevant markers. I can also interpret results you've already had, or recommend private testing if needed.
Then...
Your treatment begins
Acupuncture is used to support nervous system regulation and physical release, often creating space for clearer thinking, better sleep, and reduced reactivity.
Alongside this, we take a detailed look at the foundations that influence nervous system health, including your nutrition, blood sugar balance, breath, sleep rhythms, and somatic interventions, such as vagus nerve toning or movement-based regulation strategies.
Finally...
Ongoing support
Together, we’ll build a clear, practical roadmap, using evidence-based tools to support your nervous system from the inside out, and create sustainable change, not overwhelming.
“I came to Sarah as part of my recovery from surgery. She created holistic care tailored to me, blending acupuncture with lifestyle support. I even overcame my needle phobia thanks to her calm, grounded approach.”
— Jessica vS
“Sarah helped me with both physical and emotional symptoms. Her sessions gave me a real sense of calm and balance I hadn’t felt in years. I could tell she truly cared about helping people feel better.”
— Jesse R.
“Sarah is very warm and caring. She gave me lifestyle and nutrition guidance alongside acupuncture, which made the experience even more valuable.”
— Dewi P.
What to Expect in Your First Session
After booking, you’ll receive a health questionnaire to complete before your appointment. This helps me understand your background, current symptoms, and what kind of support may be most helpful, so we can make the most of your time in clinic.
One
Your first session includes a full consultation, where we’ll gently explore what’s contributing to your stress or anxiety, and how it’s affecting your body and daily life. You’ll also receive an acupuncture treatment tailored to support nervous system regulation and emotional balance.
Two
Following the session, I’ll send you a personalised naturopathic plan, which may include nutrition and lifestyle guidance, nervous system tools, and supplement recommendations (if appropriate).
Three
In follow-up sessions, we’ll take time to check in, adapt your plan as needed, and explore supportive techniques like breathwork or nervous system tools, based on what’s most helpful for you at the time. Some clients alternate between full naturopathic sessions and shorter acupuncture-only visits. If that feels right for you, I’ll guide you through how it works - it’s flexible and designed to meet your needs without unnecessary cost or complexity.
This is a collaborative space, we’ll move at your pace, and focus on what feels most relevant and supportive for you.
Why Combine Naturopathy with Acupuncture?
Acupuncture can be a powerful way to support the body through the treatment itself.
Naturopathy adds the time to look more deeply at what may be influencing your symptoms between sessions — including nutrition, sleep, stress patterns, hormones, digestion and daily routines.
When we combine these two approaches, we don’t just treat symptoms; we support the systems behind them. That means more clarity, more resilience, and care that supports your wellbeing in the long term.
FAQs
We start with a full consultation and health questionnaire, looking at what might be driving your symptoms. You'll receive a personalised plan that may include nutrition, supplements, nervous system support (like breathwork), and acupuncture—all tailored to your needs.
Clients come to me for support with overwhelm, anxiety, emotional tension, fatigue, burnout, low resilience, and related symptoms. I also see quite often period-related pain. Together, we look at the nervous system, gut health, blood sugar balance, and lifestyle patterns to gently shift the system into a more regulated state.
Yes, your initial consultation includes a tailored plan, and most follow-ups include an updated protocol. We track your progress and adjust based on what’s working and how you’re feeling.
Loose, comfortable clothing is best. A short-sleeved top and shorts or loose trousers are helpful, as they allow for easy access to acupuncture points.
Yes—this is often helpful. Some clients come for a full review every few weeks and acupuncture-only in between. It’s a flexible and more affordable way to maintain support.
Yes—if you’re working with me using the combined naturopathy + acupuncture approach, feel free to send any recent results ahead of your consultation. I also regularly suggest tests you can ask your GP for, or in some cases, more specialised private tests, such as gut test or hormonal tests.
Most people describe it as relaxing, and many feel calm or grounded afterwards. Some points may feel more sensitive than others, but treatments should never be painful.
Everyone’s system responds differently. You might notice improvements after one or two sessions, or it might take longer depending on what we’re working on. We'll talk about this honestly after your first consultation.
Yes—but in most cases, period pain isn’t just a local issue. To get meaningful, lasting results, I combine acupuncture with naturopathic support. This means we look at underlying factors like hormonal balance, nutrition, stress, and gut health. You’ll receive a personalised plan alongside treatment so we can work on the root cause, not just short-term relief.
As a registered member of the British Acupuncture Council (mBAcC), my treatments are recognised by many health insurers. Check with your provider first, and see my Health Insurance page → for more info.
If your main concern is a specific pain or area of tension, acupuncture-only may be the best place to start.
If your symptoms feel more widespread, keep returning, or you want to explore areas like energy, hormones, digestion, stress or lifestyle factors, Acupuncture Plus gives us more time to look at the bigger picture.
To help you get the most out of your session
Have a light meal or snack beforehand (it’s best not to arrive on an empty stomach)
Wear loose, comfortable clothing
Pricing
Initial Appointment (90 minutes): £125
Includes a full consultation, acupuncture treatment, personalised naturopathic plan, and interpretation of recent blood test results (if available).
Follow-up Appointment (60 minutes): £95
Includes progress review, updated naturopathic plan, acupuncture, and—if appropriate—somatic or breathwork techniques.
Follow-up Acupuncture Only (45 mins): £70
Available between naturopathic reviews for those who need ongoing acupuncture support without a full consultation.
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